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"Pride" is a Joyful Film About the Need for Unlikely Allies
The premise of Pride sounds like a slog: the film by British director Matthew Warchus follows a London gay and lesbian group’s fundraising campaign for mine workers who are in the midst of the nation’s...
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One-Sentence Reviews of the Lesbian Netflix Canon
Lez face it: when you're a ladygay like myself, cruising the internet for something to watch, you realize very quickly that there are a whole lot fewer gay films in the world to watch than straight...
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10 Films I Love About Queer Women of Color
Lets not beat around the bush, American cinema has some serious diversity issues. The ratio of people of color to white people is, and has always been, appallingly uneven. There's a lot of great...
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BitchTapes: Crushville
As queer folks, it can be hard to find music that resonates with our experiences of crushing and intimacy. Thanks to the folks operating the Tumblr directory "Girls and Nonbinary Folks in Music," my...
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Five Things I Love About New Book "Girl Sex 101"
Many books about sex attempt to be discrete: they’re slim volumes with demure cover text that could easily be overlooked on your bookshelf. Or they’re sketchy how-to dating books that promise to tell...
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We Need a New Orientation to Sex
Photo by Larry Bob, via Creative Commons. This is an excerpt from “We Need a New Orientation to Sex” by Cory Silverberg, an essay featured in Best Sex Writing of the Year, an anthology edited by Jon...
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An Illustrated Review of Broadway Musical "Fun Home"
Three people play Alison Bechdel in the Broadway adaptation of Fun Home, including Beth Malone, above.Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home is now a Broadway musical. Not just any...
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Six Queer Lady Comedians I Now Know and Love
From top left: Funny people Caitlin Gill, Sam Jay, Scout Durwood, Maggie Farris, Jessica Sele, & Ever Mainard.On the first night of Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival this weekend, six brilliant...
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Queer Rebels Fest: We’re Still Here, And We’re Not Going Anywhere
KB Boyce and Celeste Chan are organizing San Francisco's Queer Rebels Fest.In the midst of rapid gentrification from The Mission to Bed Stuy, in the loud boom of displacement, police violence, and the...
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BitchTapes: Marriage Equality Mixtape
Since same-sex marriage is now legal nationwide, you're going to need a perfect wedding playlist. Portland's DJ Rhienna and I put together a mix for the summer's same-sex weddings. Like the scouts...
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